First, the video: Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, trying to give a speech in Urdu to an inattentive crowd, barks "Shut up!" into the microphone, sparking a comedic frenzy across the country and numerous remixes of the infamous video. ABC News picks up what happened next:

"Which brings us to the evening of Sunday, Feb. 7. At about 9:30 p.m., according to the Pakistan Twitterverse, YouTube suddenly disappeared from Pakistani Internet Service Providers.

About an hour later, it seems that all was fixed -- with one very blatant exception. The dozen or so YouTube videos featuring Zardari's explosion in loop were still restricted. You could search for them, but you couldn't watch them (see screen grab below).

Both the government and YouTube say they're checking to see what's going on.

...It's important to note that as of right now, it's not clear who restricted the videos (or at least, nobody's owning up to it).

But Zardari's government - the first democratic government in Pakistan in more than a decade -- has taken steps in the past to restrict critical speech."

Let's face it: The widower of Benazir Bhutto is continually fighting an uphill P.R. battle, and his little outburst does nothing to reverse the perception that he's disconnected with the people. He can shut up YouTube, but that will only make the video more viral -- and his political reputation more toxic.

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A top Egyptian cleric has decreed that Farmville is bad, Super Poking is so anti-Sharia, status updates are for sinners, and, well, the land of all these apps and more, Facebook, is fatwa-worthy. More:

"Statistics show that divorce rates have risen since the advent of Facebook and it has sharply increased marital infidelity, Sheikh Abdel Hamid al-Atras said.

'It's an instrument that destroys the family because it encourages spouses to have relations with other people which break Islamic sharia law,' said al-Atrash, quoted by pan-Arab daily Al-Sharq al-Awsat.

He is the former head of the fatwa commission at Cairo's Al-Azhar University.

'While one or other of the spouses is at work, the other is chatting online with someone else, wasting their time and flouting the Sharia. This endangers the Muslim family,' said al-Atrash.

The edict followed the publication earlier this week of a study claiming one out of five of divorces in Egypt had been caused by liaisons begun on Facebook or other social networking sites."

Al-Atrash added that "whoever uses such websites must be considered a sinner."

Ah, but he has a challenger, reports Al-Arabiya:

"Former al-Azhar scholar Dr. Farahat al-Mungi argued that while Facebook might be the source of many divorces, its role in building marriages cannot be overlooked.

'I personally have witnessed several marriages that took place between people who got to know each other via Facebook,' he told Al Arabiya Saturday. 'Facebook is the source of many successful marriages and happy families.'

When asked about the views of many religious scholars towards social networking websites as against the teachings of Islam, Moungi replied that those who issue such fatwas on social-networking websites have very little knowledge about how they work or what they are about.

'The fatwas that ban those websites are in contradiction with a saying by prophet Mohamed which states that Muslims should be aware of their reality.'"

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In the wake of faulty accelerator pedals that have tarnished the reputation of the once golden Toyota, the company's president President Akio Toyoda apologized Friday and promised better quality control. More:

"'I sincerely apologize for causing concern to many of our customers over recalls for multiple models in multiple regions,' Toyoda, grandson of Toyota's founder, told a hastily called news conference in Nagoya late Friday that was aired at Toyota's Tokyo office by satellite feed.

Toyoda sought to reassure customers, saying, 'Believe me, Toyota cars are safe.'

Regarding the latest dark cloud on the carmaker's horizon, the brake problems involving its popular Prius hybrid models, Toyoda said the automaker was still deciding on a remedy and remained vague on whether a recall would be immediately forthcoming. Millions of other Toyota models, however, have been subject to recent recalls in connection with sudden accelerations, accelerator pedal faults and floor mat issues.

Toyoda only said he has ordered a 'prompt response' to the Prius woes."

Well, it looks like that Prius recall will come this upcoming week, reports the The Yomiuri Shimbun. Toyota is already facing lawsuits over the faulty brakes in the hybrids.

Interesting take on Toyoda's apology by the L.A. Times, noting that his body language said a lot:

"The president's bow, when it came at last, was a dip that lasted only a second.

Coming two weeks after his company began recalling cars by the millions, the short, formal dip, head cast down, suggested regret for causing so much trouble for his customers.

But Akio Toyoda, grandson of the founder of the Japanese automaker now battling to save its global image from the stain of safety problems, did not deliver the deeper, longer bow that some expected. Bend too low, hold the pose too long, and Toyoda might have found himself in sticky legal trouble, his ritual of apology construed as a sign that the company accepted its culpability in the mess over all those defects.

In a culture where saying sorry comes easily but can mean many things, the Japanese bow, a stiff, from-the- waist dip with arms held at the side, is often the better indicator of the sincerity of one's contrition.

The nation's ritual of corporate apology has ties to feudal times when samurai warriors committed seppuku, disemboweling themselves in atonement."

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A group called Polo Constitucional, composed of former government ministers, Army colleagues and Assembly members who once allied with Hugo Chavez, are now formally calling on the Venezuelan president to step down. At a Sunday press conference, Luis Alfonso Dávila, former Congress Speaker, former Minister of the Interior and former Minister of Foreign Affairs, read the group's statement, here in part from El Universal:

"Everything you said before you took office has turned you into an illegitimate president. People suffer from personal insecurity, undermined freedoms, legal and social insecurity; poverty is deepening; public utilities such as water, electricity and garbage collection are a mess. Lack of productivity has led to food shortages, the country's infrastructure has deteriorated due to the lack of maintenance; the Venezuelan economy is experiencing one of its more serious crisis despite oil prices (...) Corruption has reached obscene levels."

The group, which urged Venezuelans to keep demonstrating against the regime, added that Chavez "has neither moral nor material authority to rule the country, since he can not meet people's demands satisfactorily."

In other Venezuela news, the head of Venezuela's version of the chamber of commerce, which is probably pretty high on Chavez's neo-socialist Bolivarian hit list, reportedly has a warrant out for his arrest now. "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear. I will stay here in my country. I will keep working," Noel Álvarez said. The charge? Allegedly promoting a coup. Sure.